Senior Test and Automation Engineer

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Inversion

Making Earth radically more accessible by turning space into a global logistics network

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inversionspace.com

51-200 employees

Defense and Space Manufacturing

Playa Vista, California

2021

Privately Held

17k LinkedIn followers

Raised $54.1M

• As a Test and Automation Engineer at Inversion, you will work as part of the
• simulation team to build, test, maintain, and develop the automated software and
• hardware systems that support the simulation and test environments for our
• flight systems. The simulation team is responsible for ensuring that flight
• software and flight hardware can be continuously integrated and tested under
• realistic flight conditions. You will play a key role in the automation of
• electrical ground support equipment (EGSE) and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test
• benches that will enable fast, repeatable development and deployment workflows
• across the engineering stack. Your work will empower Inversion’s engineering
• teams to iterate rapidly throughout the development life cycle and will
• strengthen Inversion’s ability to put our products into the hands of our
• customers with unprecedented speed and agility.
• Automate provisioning, deployment, execution, operation, and logging tasks to
• optimize resource utilization and allocation
• Develop automated test scripts to support qualification efforts for our
• flight software and hardware systems
• Develop device API wrappers for EGSE equipment (e.g.: to control power
• supplies, oscilloscopes, etc., via automated test scripts)
• Develop emulators for flight hardware to support software-in-the-loop (SIL)
• and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing
• Contribute to the design and development of a simulation system capable of
• automatically provisioning and deploying resources to support simulation
• workflows

• 5+ years of professional experience in testing and automation of software and
• hardware systems
• Proficiency in one or more scripting languages (Python, Lua, Bash,
• PowerShell, etc.)
• Proficiency in one or more embedded languages (C/C++, Rust, etc.)
• Experience with Linux-based systems
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government Secret/Top
• Secret security clearance.
• Proficiency in the integration and testing of mission- and safety-critical
• electronics
• Experience with modern DevOps practices
• Experience with async and multithreaded architectures
• Experience with data acquisition and logging
• Experience with robotics middleware and autonomy stacks (ROS 2, Webots,
• Orocos, YARP, etc.)
• Familiarity with time-series databases (InfluxDB, QuestDB, Prometheus, etc.)
• Familiarity with message-oriented middleware (NATS, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ,
• etc.)
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Docker Compose, etc.)
• Our office headquarters is located in Playa Vista, CA. This position requires in
• office presence.
• The California annual base salary for this role is currently $137,000 -
• $193,000.  Pay Grades are determined by role, level, location, and alignment
• with market data.  Individual pay will be determined on a case-by-case basis and
• may vary based on the following considerations: interviews and an assessment of
• several factors that are unique to each candidate, job-related skills, relevant
• education and experience, certifications, abilities of the candidate and
• internal equity.
• To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the
• U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the
• Inversion provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and
• Notice [https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa] for further details.